blog.coinbase.com Archives - 10 December 2016, Saturday

Our customers may be aware that the U.S. government filed a civil petition yesterday in federal court seeking disclosure of all Coinbase U.S. customers' records over a three year period. The government has not alleged any wrongdoing on the part of Coinbase and its petition is predicat...

22 Jun 2016 Coinbase adds support for PayPal and Credit Cards One of our objectives at Coinbase is to add as many funding mechanisms as possible to make exchanging digital currency easy. As a step in that direction, Coinbase now accepts PayPal (for bitcoin sells) and credit cards (for...

01 Jun 2016 Buying Bitcoin Just Got Way Easier Buying bitcoin is harder than it should be, which is why we at Coinbase have been working so hard to expand our services to more regions of the world, to accept more payment methods, and to process transactions as quickly as possible. Ove...

28 Jan 2016 Shift Card: A Glimpse Under the Hood It has now been over 2 months since our partner Shift Payments launched the first US-issued bitcoin debit card, built with the Coinbase API. To the average person, the Shift Card may appear no different from a traditional debit card. Bu...

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31 Dec 2015 2015 Bitcoin Year in Review We’ve seen the Bitcoin ecosystem mature in many ways over the past year. Here are some of the most important Bitcoin trends of 2015: Bitcoin transactions per day more than doubled In December 2014, the Bitcoin network averaged 86,038 transaction...

Today, we’re excited to introduce the first US-issued bitcoin debit card, the Shift Card. The Shift Card is a VISA debit card that currently allows Coinbase users in twenty-four states in the U.S. to spend bitcoin online and offline at over 38 million merchants worldwide. Merchant ado...

11 Aug 2015 How Premise Uses Bitcoin to Collect Data in Venezuela Premise is a San Francisco-based technology company with the mission of bringing visibility to the world’s hardest-to-see places. The company tracks macroeconomic and human development trends in real-time by collecting ...

It’s already past the halfway mark in 2015 and we thought it would be a good time to provide an overview of the trends that we’re seeing in Bitcoin this year. While the price of bitcoin is down 9% year-to-date, if you look below the surface it is clear that Bitcoin had a strong first ...

10 Jul 2015 Coinbase Launches $25 Referral Bonus Our goal at Coinbase is to be the easiest place to buy and sell bitcoin. To that end, we’ve decided to give our referral program a serious shot in the arm. Coinbase users can now earn $25 of free bitcoin for every user they refer to Coi...

One of the main benefits of bitcoin is that it allows people to take control of their own wealth. Recent events in Greece have brought attention to this situation as the Greek banks have closed and limited customers to withdrawing 60 Euros per day. We feel that all Europeans should ed...

Coinbase Launches First Regulated Bitcoin Exchange in the U.S. We’re happy to announce Coinbase Exchange , the first regulated bitcoin exchange based in the U.S. With this launch our goal is to bring increased stability to the bitcoin ecosystem. Coinbase Exchange provides a reliable a...

Time Inc. Partners with Coinbase to Accept Bitcoin Time Inc. , one of the world’s leading media companies, announced today that it is now accepting bitcoin through an integration with Coinbase. Consumers can now pay for digital and print subscriptions of Fortune , Health , This Old Ho...

Mozilla Now Accepting Bitcoin for Donations via Coinbase We’re pleased to announce that the Mozilla Foundation is now accepting bitcoin for donations with Coinbase’s merchant tools. Since it was founded in 1998, Mozilla has built great Web products while staying true to the core value...

One of the most exciting aspects of Bitcoin is that it enables new behaviors that aren’t possible with traditional payment networks. A great example of this is micropayments (payments less than $1.00). Traditional payment methods are generally too expensive to support micropayments. B...

When we started Coinbase, we took a look at the Bitcoin Core open source project, and tried to decide how we could use it to build a web application. Bitcoin Core is a great reference implementation, but was never designed to query blockchain data in a flexible way (such as through a ...

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United Way Worldwide is the world’s largest privately held non-profit, and we are excited to announce that the organization is now accepting bitcoin for donations using Coinbase’s merchant tools. We’re thrilled to enable the Bitcoin community to contribute to United Way’s longstanding...

Sleep Well Knowing Your Bitcoin is Safe Jul 25th, 2014 Bitcoin wallets are great for day-to-day spending, but storing large amounts of bitcoin requires extra security. This is why we created Coinbase Vault . How does it work? Withdrawals are time delayed with notifications delivered t...

The Future of Bitcoin Storage: Wallets + Vaults Jul 2nd, 2014 A good bitcoin wallet does many things: it is secure, easy to use, and facilitates spending of bitcoin across a growing number of platforms and merchants . This sounds simple enough. Yet as we worked on the Coinbase wallet,...

Buyback Bitcoin After Checkout Jun 20th, 2014 At Coinbase, we’re always looking for new ways to streamline the process of purchasing bitcoin. To make the process even easier, we just launched a new bitcoin “repurchase” feature. You can now refill the bitcoin in your Coinbase wallet ri...

This tragic violation of the trust of users of Mt.Gox was the result of one company’s actions and does not reflect the resilience or value of bitcoin and the digital currency industry. There are hundreds of trustworthy and responsible companies involved in bitcoin. These companies wil...

Coinbase and Mint Announce First Bitcoin Personal Finance Integration Jan 30th, 2014 Today we’re excited to announce a new partnership with Mint , the leading personal finance app from Intuit Inc. Now Mint users will be able to view their digital bitcoin transactions processed by Coin...

We’re proud to announce a new partnership with Overstock.com , a leading discount online shopping retailer, which will make it possible for consumers to purchase items on their site using bitcoin. Starting today, bitcoin will be a purchase option for any item sold on Overstock.com via...

Coinbase to Waive All Fees on 11/29/13 in Support of Bitcoin Black Friday As a proud sponsor of Bitcoin Black Friday, we’re happy to announce that Coinbase will waive all fees on Friday, November 29th. Coinbase users can buy, sell, send and receive bitcoins for free, all day long. If ...

You can now give and get $5 for every person you send Bitcoin We’ve gotten a lot of requests to extend our referral program to our send bitcoin via email feature. We agree and think that sending someone some bitcoin to their email address is the best way to refer someone new to Bitcoi...

We’re big fans of reddit , and have long wanted an easy way to send people bitcoin “tips” through the site. When someone makes a particularly educational/funny/awesome comment, it would be great to send them a tiny amount of bitcoin - both to reward them and help spread awareness abou...

Coinbase visits payments conference Money2020 - response to Bitcoin overwhelming Coinbase attended one of the world’s largest payments conferences (Money2020 ) this week. We participated in a panel hosted by Bloomberg. The audience was asked “how many of you are thinking about integra...

Your first $1,000,000 USD in merchant processing is now free! We’ve long believed that merchant adoption is key to bitcoin going mainstream, and the next large phase of bitcoin usage will be as customers spend their bitcoin with more merchants. With that in mind, we wanted to lower al...

You can now perform all basic actions in Bitcoin through SMS We are constantly trying to make Bitcoin easy and accessible to everyone. Some of the people who can benefit from Bitcoin the most (those in second and third world countries) don’t have a smartphone though! To solve that pro...

You Can Now Send Micro-Transactions With Zero Fees We launched an exciting feature today: off blockchain micro-transactions between Coinbase accounts! Here is a bitcoin transaction I just sent myself for 1 satoshi (that is 0.00000001 Bitcoin). The transaction: arrived instantly confir...